Caching can greatly speed up the browsing experience for your site visitors. Besides improving the browsing experience, this can increase the site's search engine standing. However, caching can sometimes cause issues with forms. In those cases, you might want to...
Web Development
Solving Database Hard-Coded Addressing Issues When Moving Websites
When moving a database-driven content management system (CMS) to a new server environment, hard-coded addressing can cause issues with broken links and missing images. To avoid these issues, one solution is to export the CMS’s database to a text file and use a search and replace tool to modify any hard-coded addressing. This approach allows you to easily modify the hard-coded addressing without specialized database software or knowledge. However, it’s important to be careful when making modifications to the database and to thoroughly test the CMS after making any changes.
My thoughts on Elegant Theme’s Divi Theme and the Elementor Plugin
When it comes to managing website content on WordPress, there are many tools available to help make the process easier and more efficient. Two of the most popular and powerful tools are Elegant Theme's Divi theme and the Elementor plugin. In this article, we'll take a...
Centering Divi Gallery on Mobile Devices
Add to CSS /* divi gallery center on mobile */ .et_pb_gallery_items { display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; -webkit-justify-content: center; justify-content: center; -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap; flex-wrap:...
Speed Up Your Website’s Page Loading using Redis
I intend to focus this article on yet another way of speeding up your website's page loading time. My focus here will be hooking up Redis to speed page loading in complex websites. Over the years I've noticed that website pages have become more complex to meet the...
How to Reset or Recover the Joomla Super Administrator Password
It can be very frustrating to have gotten locked out of administrative control of your Joomla! website. The information here requires that you have access to your Joomla! website's database. That information can be gained via FTP if you have FTP access, or via your...
DirectAdmin Upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0 breaks Installatron
Installatron is a great server product. We have been using it since May of 2016 on a number of our website servers. Installatron is very cost effective and interfaces directly with DirectAdmin. It allows CharlesWorks staff to quickly set up websites on our servers for...
Fixing Website Page Not Found (404 Errors) Using Redirection
In the course of managing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in one or more websites, you or your web clients most probably have seen an email from Google containing something along the lines of what looks like what is shown here. What is a 404 Error? The infamous 404...
PayPal Procedure to Intergrade the Advanced Version Check Out
I had to look up the word intergrade when I first came across the directions for this process. In a nutshell it means to merge gradually one with another through a continuous series of intermediate forms. Seems to me it is a fancy word for upgrade or update. In this...
How To Fix WordPress Mobile Image Alignment & Text Wrap Problems
You need to add the margin snippet every time you align and image to right or left. <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2440" style="padding: 20px;" src="https://website.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/plank-pest-spiders-problems-223x300.jpg" alt=""...